Govt to replace Assam Rifles with BSF on Myanmar border

Apart from the new responsibility of guarding the Indo-Myanmar border, the Border Security Force (BSF) is at present deployed on the frontiers with Pakistan and Bangladesh.

According to the blueprint prepared in this regard, at least 40,000 BSF personnel will be deployed for the porous border.

The AR, sources said, will be inducted into fresh roles to undertake counter-insurgency operations in other theatres.  

The BSF will start the process of recruiting new manpower for the task after the approval of the CCS headed by Prime Minister.